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Firefighters smashed the window of a driverless Cruise taxi to stop it running over their hoses
2023-02-03A Cruise autonomous vehicle drove toward fire hoses on the ground in the area of active firefighting on January 21, the city’s transport officials said in a letter to regulators on Wednesday.
“Firefighters on the scene made efforts to preve…
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About the Database
The AI Incident Database is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems. Like similar databases in aviation and computer security, the AI Incident Database aims to learn from experience so we can prevent or mitigate bad outcomes.
You are invited to submit incident reports, whereupon submissions will be indexed and made discoverable to the world. Artificial intelligence will only be a benefit to people and society if we collectively record and learn from its failings. (Learn More)

AI Incident Roundup – December ‘22Latest Blog Post
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
2023-01-16
Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...
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Incident Report Submission Leaderboards
These are the persons and entities credited with creating and submitted incident reports. More details are available on the leaderboard page.
Wordcounts
These are the most common rooted and stemmed words across all incident reports. More details are available on its data summary page.
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4612system
4374peopl
4263new
3734sai
3166algorithm
3154data
3133technolog
2916polic
2741car
2651Random Incidents
The Responsible AI Collaborative
The AI Incident Database is a project of the Responsible AI Collaborative, an organization chartered to advance the AI Incident Database. The governance of the Collaborative is architected around the participation in its impact programming. For more details, we invite you to read the founding report and learn more on our board and contributors.

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